OCTREE BASED RECOGNITION OF ASSEMBLY FEATURES

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 353-362

  Sung, Raymond C W ^a   Comey, Jonathan R ^a   Clark, Doug E R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly features; Assembly planning; Feature recognition; Geometric modelling; Octree representation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY FEATURES; ASSEMBLY PLANNING; BREP MODELS; CONTACT FACES; FEATURES RECOGNITION; FORM FEATURES; GEOMETRIC MODELS; GEOMETRIC REASONING; OCTREE REPRESENTATION; OCTREES;

EID: 85148642354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/DFM-14031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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